Dictator Quotes - Page 9

• There is a very easy and very peaceful way to get rid of a dictator: Get out of the system!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Peaceful, Way, Easy

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• Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Ignorance, Hands

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• There are lots of things that I will probably never experience in this life. Military combat. Being dictator of a small central American country. Dunking a basketball. Being a famous rock star. Or walking on Mars. But one thing I have been, and will always be, is an entrepreneur.

  Michael Arrington

  Basketball, Country, Stars

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• Dictators from the past, tyrants, were not unaware that it is easier to govern and enslave a nation of drinkers than that of abstainers.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Past, Tyrants, Easier

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• As Trevor Noah recently quipped, the US appears ready to crown its first African dictator: Donald Trump.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Crowns, Firsts, Trump

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Vladimir Putin is a dictator.

  Tim Kaine

  Putin

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We will have to work around the world with less than ideal governments. The government in Saudi Arabia is not a democracy, but we will have to work with them. The government in Jordan is not perfect, but we will have to work with them. But anti-American dictators like [Bashar] Assad, who help Hezbollah, who helped get those IEDs into Iraq, if they go, I will not shed a tear.

  Marco Rubio

  Government, Iraq, Perfect

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• No one is ever better off with dictators but there comes a time you know, when you're on an airplane, they always say, "in case of an emergency oxygen masks will drop down. Put yours on first and then administer help to your neighbor." We need oxygen right now.

  Benjamin Carson

  Airplane, Oxygen, Needs

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Saudi Arabia is the most fragile of all Arab states, though we're not saying so. And, unfortunately, bin Laden puts his finger on the other longstanding injustices in the Arab world: the continued occupation of Palestinian land by the Israelis; the enormous, constant Arab anger with the tens of thousands of Iraqi children who are dying under sanctions; the feelings of humiliation of millions of Arabs living under petty dictators, almost all of whom are propped up by the West.

  Robert Fisk

  Children, Land, Feelings

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 1, 2001.

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• Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators in one country after another, like Somalia and Ethiopia, or in one-party states like the Soviet Union and China.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Military, Party

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• The West hasn't been naïve, it has been patronizing the South by imposing its own views on what should be done - ironically after having been so close and so supportive of dictators who were not respecting the people.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Views, People, Supportive

  "'You want my reaction? You get my silence'". Interview with Lars Mensel and Clemens Lukitsch, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. November 19, 2012.

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• I guess the main thing that came out of the Panama Papers was that Ukrainian President Poroshenko had promised to divest of his chocolate company and instead, he simply moved it into an offshore account. And on the very day that he was increasing the attacks on the eastern Donbass region of Ukraine, the export sector, he was signing documents to conceal his own money offshore. So the exposé of the Panama money laundering has hit some of the dictators that America is protecting and promoting.

  Michael Hudson

  Ukraine, America, Chocolate

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Hillary Clinton, as an awful judge of the character of a dictator and butcher in the Middle East. Is she guilty or not guilty?

  Chris Christie

  Character, Judging, Awful

  "Chris Christie: 'It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now'". Chris Christie's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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• Russia, as well as any other country, does not need dictators, but it needs equitable principles of organizing the state and society: just, effective, flexibly responding to changes inside and outside the country - that is what Russia needs.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Russia, Principles

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• The war against ISIS will pose many new challenges for the next commander-in-chief. The last two presidents [George W. Bush and Barack Obama] pursued a Middle East policy that supported toppling dictators to try to promote democracy.

  Wolf Blitzer

  War, Isis, Two

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• The people have only a very vague direct power. They have the power of voting against the administration, again after its decisions have been taken; but they have no way of getting into the question of policy-making, decision-making, except insofar as the vague forces and pressures of public debate and public opinion have their impact on the President. The President still has to decide. He can't go to the people and ask them to decide for him; he has to make the decision. In that sense he was condemned to be a dictator.

  Walter Millis

  Taken, Impact, Policy Making

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• In the private system and the private schools, the principal is pretty much a dictator. He or she can hire whoever s/he wants. Of course, in the movie, in the story, she makes a mistake by hiring him. But, if she doesn't, I have no story.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Mistake, School, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Capturing Saddam Hussein and ensuring that this brutal dictator will never return to power is an important step toward stabilizing Iraq for the Iraqis. Let's also be clear: Our problems in Iraq have not been caused by one man, and this is a moment when the administration can and must launch a major effort to gain international support and win the peace.

  John F. Kerry

  Men, Winning, Iraq

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• The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

  Bill Gates

  War, Fall, Hands

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• A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator.

  Walter Lippmann

  Fall, Confusion, Democracy

  Walter Lippmann (1936). “Authority in the crisis”

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• American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.

  Elizabeth Sherman Lindsay

  Hands, President, Brutal

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• Obviously, I think being vegan is important. But no one should judge anybody. I'm not a dictator and I don't expect anyone to be any certain way.

  Pamela Anderson

  Thinking, Judging, Important

  "Pamela Anderson Loves Miley, Has No Opinion on the "Car-Crashians"". Interview with Corinn Jackson, www.elle.com. December 14, 2015.

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• As an artist, it's a great opportunity to play a character like this [Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland]. And then, as a person, I had never been to the African continent. So, I knew, personally, it would reshape me.

  Forest Whitaker

  Kings, Character, Opportunity

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Your first leader is your dad. 'course he controls your food and shelter, so, he's not really a leader, he's more of a fascist dictator. But dictators have dreams too. Your dad doesn't. He gave them up when he had you. So remember that next time you say, I don't want to cut the lawn. Just shut up and mow the grass and save the lip for your teachers.

  Christopher Titus

  Dream, Teacher, Dad

  "Titus / The Pit". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Once again, as a flawed evaluator of dictators and failed strategist who has permitted Russia back in as a major player in the Middle East, is Hillary Clinton guilty or not guilty?

  Chris Christie

  Player, Russia, Middle East

  The Republican National Convention Speech in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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